(urth) Confusing passage

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Lee Berman 


> From On Blue's Waters, Ch. 5 section 6:

>    Even Hoof and Horn [sic], who must just be entering young manhood now
>    will someday be as old as Marrow and Patera Remora.....in fifty years,
>    Horn and Hide [sic] may well be dead....These words, which I pen with
>    so little thought- or hope- or expectation- may possibly endure long
>    beyond that, endure for two centuries or even three...

> I am confused by this. I could guess the first [sic] is a way of
> forshadowing that Horn's self-identity will come into question later.
> But what about the second [sic]? Is Hide's identity also to come into
> question? Or does the second [sic] also refer to Horn in the clause?
I say typo.  It makes no sense as written, and the names are easily confusable.  Reading the passage, I didn’t notice it, so it’s not implausible that author and proof-readers didn’t either.
- Gerry Quinn
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